Red mud Wrestlers train at a a wrestling school in Kolhapur, India. Kush is an ancient version of wrestling, some 3,000 years old. It originated in India and spread out to Iran and the Middle East. It is still practiced in pockets of India but Kolhapur in India's west is today the main centre of the art, where all the best fighters, trainers and "Achaea" or wrestling schools are to be found.